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Under questioning by Senators Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) and Edward Gurney (R-Fla.) of the Senate's Watergate committee, Buchanan defended his recommendation that the tax-exempt status of nonprofit foundations be reexamined and if possible made a subject of public debate by advancing the theory that most if not all such foundations--specifically the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institute and the Institute of Politics--belong to what he called America's "liberal establishment...
...generation's box score, a monument of talent, accomplishment and appetite. George Herman Ruth−the glorious Babe of baseball−was and is the nation's finest sports legend. No one will ever replace him as the Sultan of Swat. Without Ruth, Hank Aaron and future sluggers would have no standard of greatness to be measured against...
...anticipated the criticism," says Inspector H.D. Caldwell, Chief of Staff Services (which includes the Juvenile Missing Persons) for the Houston police. "Someone must be found to assume the blame." But, says Houston Police Chief Herman Short, "This kind of disgusting attempt at scapegoating compounds an already tragic incident...
...Ervin pounded his gavel for the last time at 4:45 in the afternoon and then, after a round of handshakes and picture taking, he took the gavel with him as he departed for a surprise party to celebrate Herman E. Talmadge's 60th birthday. After 37 days, 33 witnesses, 7,573 pages of transcript and nearly 2,000,000 words of testimony, just about everybody felt it was time for a rest...
Died. Jean-Pierre Melville, 55, film director and patron saint of the nouvelle vague of French cinema; of a heart attack; in Paris. Melville changed his name from Grumbach in honor of the American novelist Herman Melville, sported a cowboy hat, and was celebrated for his Gallic exercises in gangster melodramas. His best-known film, Les Enfants Terribles (1948), was made in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, author of the novel...